Postgraduate Course: Critical Musicology and Semiotics (MUSI11008)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will introduce students to methodologies and theories that have developed in the musicological field in the last twenty years. It will include influences from New Criticism, Semiotics and their related new methods of music analysis. After a general overview of Semiotics in various fields, students will be introduced to the problematics of the new terminology, to new syntactic and semantic methods of musical interpretation, and they will inspect these in view of their cultural and historical context. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | n/a |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
| Students will have become familiar with range of methodologies and theories in the New Musicology and in Semiotics. They will also be familiar with terminology applied in contemporary musicological discourse. This will inform their own research and prepare them for the writing of their dissertation.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Simon Frith
Tel: (0131 6)50 2426
Email: Simon.Frith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk |
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